Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
This isn’t quite true. At bars and upscale restaurants you pull in a crazy amount of money for having no formal education or training. If your goal is to provide a standard of living then you should be tipping at all minimum wage professions. The server and a decent place is making $100- $200 a night in tips after tip out over 4hrs for a $40- $65 an hour wage.
The person working at the till in your grocery store makes $15-$20.
The cooks, especially junior ones in kitchens get screwed for the quality they produce.
(As an aside I tip flat rate with no change for quality of service at 12% an increase to 18 in jurisdictions where minimum wage is below $15 per hour)
|
Former high school buddy went straight into the host/waiter business at a high end Calgary steak restaurant. Had lots of rich and famous people including NHL players. Was making about $60k/yr. Back in early 1990’s. Tax free cos it was mostly cash. If it was a pre tax amount that woulda been about $90k/yr.
Around 5 yrs later after I’d finished post secondary my salary was a bit under $35k/yr. Then taxed. So yeah some serving and restaurant people, at the right place and with the right skills, can do quite well. But most don’t.
Anyways, most definitely the tipping thing has gotten outa control the last 5 years. Recently one of the “options” I saw firsthand was for 25%. Im still thinking 10 is good and 15 exceptional. And takeouts… my guilt these days has me feeling a need to leave 5-10% but maybe that was Christmas tipping guilt.